Exactly nearly… argghh!

30Apr08

In his post on the history of the safety pin, Seth uses my pet peeve phrase, “exactly nearly”.
You either are “exactly” 212lb OR “nearly” 200lb
Exact & nearly are extremely opposite ideas. Now Seth may have done this on purpose to catch peoples attention or just generate confusion. I am not privilged to the inner workings [...]

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Tags: exactly, nearly, safety pin, Seth Godin

Fuel Pricing … its a joke.

18Apr08

With daily fluctuations of up to 15%, for the retail price of fuel, its time the government stepped in and had some further input other than just appointing a petrol commissioner to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.
Now they propse a “Fuel Watch” system. Will it work?
Just get used to higher prices as India and [...]

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OpenID is great.

17Apr08

I have recently been checking out 37signals products, Basecamp, Highrise & Backpack. They are all excellent products, however that will be the subject of future posts.
What I did learn about has been the OpenID concept.
Its great.
There are many providers of OpenIDs, including AOL and WordPress and Verisign just to name a few.
The concept

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Tags: backpack, basecamp, Highrise, OpenID, wordpress